Fresh military movement in Tibet as 40 Force vehicles moves to North Lhasa, claims TSC
April 19, 2008 No CommentDHARMSHALA: About 40 trucks filled with Chinese Police and Army proceeded to North of Lhasa, where Sera Monastery is located. According to reliable sources, the Police and the Army knocked on each of the residence of the Sera monks and arrested them. The doors and windows of the monks who refused to open the door were [...]
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DHARMSHALA: Kesang Y Takla, Minister of Tibet for the Department of Information and International Relations has called for sending fact-finding delegations by international community into Tibet and to resume dialogue between His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s representatives and the Chinese government. Minister Takla has also appealed for the improvement of human rights in Tibet and [...]
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Top Buddhist leader maintains that he was not against Beijing Olympics Dharamshala: Tibetan Spiritual Leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama addressed a large gathering of media persons, during his visit to Ann Arbor in US today said an official spokesman of the office of the His Holiness said here today. His Holiness said” Right from the [...]
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DHARMSHALA: The Chinese authorities have stepped up an unprecedented repression in Rong Gonchen Monastery in Rebkong County (Ch: Tongren Xian), after yesterday’s protest, according to confirmed information received by the Dharmshala based Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD), said in a press note issued here today. Rong Gonchen Monastery is an important Tibetan Buddhist monastery in [...]
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DHARMSHALA: Accordingly to a reliable source, no outsiders were allowed to meet the 140 arrestees who were detained yesterday following the violent suppression by the Chinese army on those peaceful demonstrators at Rongpo Monastery in Rebkong. Particularly, Alak Khaso Tsang, after receiving critical injury, had a blood pressure problem and said to be taken to [...]
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DHARMSHALA: Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche, Prime minister of Tibetan Government-In-Exile today appealed the international community to take effective and immediate actions to prevent the PRC from indulging in such brutal acts against the Tibetan people and to stop their policy of systematic cultural genocide in Tibet. While talking to media persons at Dharmshala today, he said [...]
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JAWALAMUKHI: The president of Maha Bodhi Society of India, B.K. Modi, has demanded Indian citizenship for the Dalai Lama.Modi said he discussed the citizenship issue with the Tibetan spiritual leader and the Dalai Lama agreed to become an Indian citizen. On the effect conferring citizenship would have on the relations between India and China, Modi [...]
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Dharamshala: A number of monks were detained in Drepung Monastery in Tibet, after they protested against Chinese efforts to denounce His Holiness the Dalai Lama, says Dharmshala based rights group Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD). “Security forces were called into the monastery by the “Work Team” to control the monks who protested [...]
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Dharamshala: His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s five-day lecture series on nurturing compassion and spirituality held in Seattle, has drawn more than 144,000 listeners, a little short of 150,000 as expected by organisers, said a official of the His Holiness office at Dharmshala. In Seattle, since 11 April, His Holiness engaged in a series of conferences [...]
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Dharamshala: Under the umbrella of the Delhi Chapter of Tibetan Solidarity Committee, a core group of 50 runners – including both Tibetans and Indians with Gandhi’s message of non-violence and blessings in their hearts – began a peace march in New Delhi today. According to organisers: “The Torch for Tibet is the symbol of the [...]
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JAWALAMUKHI—-The two day long conference on Hinduism and Buddhism, Back to Basics, concluded here today, under the chairmanship of B K Modi. He said the main purpose of the conference was to provide an opportunity to establish a common platform for all Buddhist traditions in imparting the teachings of Buddha of global peace. Modi Chairman [...]
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Nahan: A section of youths comprising four Tibetan settlements in the district is planning to oppose the Olympic torch arriving at Delhi on 17th April .Sources said that even this group may also try to extinguish(light off) the torch with other agitators from the country. Sources said that the agitators would leave for Delhi from [...]
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The Tibetan government in exile is not opposing the Beijing Olympics 2010 but the government wanted that torch of the Olympics should pass through the Lahasa so that actual truth could come out. Stating this Member of Parliament Mr. Sonam Damdal said that UN should immediately sent an independent fact finding delegation to Tibet over [...]
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NAHAN: Displaying play cards and shouting slogans against the use of force and violence to suppress on going demonstrations in Tibet they were demanding world community to press China to stop violence on the thousands of Men, women, children monks and nuns and killing innocent people. Hundreds of Tibetans took out a protest march in the [...]
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